The Topanga Culture: Final Report on Excavations, 1948Treganza, Adan E. (Adan Eduardo)
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The Topanga Culture: Final Report on Excavations, 1948
Treganza, Adan E. (Adan Eduardo)
California -- Antiquities; Topanga Canyon (Calif.)
1954. Salvage Archaeology in Nimbus and Redbank Reservoir Areas,
Central California. UCAS No. 26.
Treganza, A. E., and E. G. Malamud
1950. The Topanga Culture: First Season's Excavation of the Tank Site.
1947. UCAR 12(4).
Treganza, A. E., and L. L. Valdivia
1955. The Manufacture of Pecked and Ground Stone Artifacts; A
Controlled Study. UCAS (32):19-29.
Walker, E. F.
1936. A Ceremonial Site at Porter Ranch, San Fernando. SM-M 10:98-104.
1945. The Dig at Big Tujunga Wash. SM-M 19:188-193.
1951. Five Prehistoric Archaeological Sites in Los Angeles County,
California. SM Vol. VI.
Wallace, W. J.
1945. The Little Sycamore Site and the Early Milling Stone Cultures of
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1955. A Suggested Chronology for Southern California Coastal
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PLATES
EXPLANATION OF PLATES
Plate 17
Phase II burials from LAn-2. _a._ Burial 4 flexed on back with associated
rock cairn. _b._ Burial 4 with cairn removed. _c._ Burial 1, flexed with
associated rock. _d._ Burial flexed on left side. _e._ Burial 10, LAn-1,
showing sets of leg bones from two individuals.
Plate 18
Burials, features, and artifacts from LAn-1. _a._ Burial 11, showing only
long bones and mandible fragment. _b._ Feature 21, showing metate
fragments and human long bone. _c._ Slab and shallow-basin metates. _d._
Feature 24, weathered metate fragments.
Plate 19
Features, LAn-1. _a._ Feature 25, a cache of six manos. _b._ Feature 14, a
cache of four manos. _c._ Exposed features in central portion of site.
_d._ Feature 15 and showing burial 10 in upper left.
Plate 20
Features, LAn-1. _a._ Feature 26, showing inverted metates, manos, and
core tools. _b._ Feature 22, showing deep-basin metate that has been
turned over, and manos, _c._ Feature 28, showing inverted "killed" metate,
metate fragments, and manos. _d._ Feature 23, showing large concentration
of metate fragments, core tools, manos, and fire-fractured stone.
Plate 21
Topanga Culture Phase I projectile points and blades from LAn-1. _a-i._
Patinated basalt specimens. _j._ Laminated chert. _k-l._ Chert. _m._
Crescent stone or "amulet."
Plate 22
Topanga Culture Phase II knives and projectile points. _a, b._ Chert and
obsidian knives. _c-e._ Side-notched points. _f, g._ Contracting-stem
points. _h, i._ Lozenge points. _j, k._ Contracting-stem points. _l-u._
Lozenge points.
Plate 23
Cog stones, drills, and projectile points. _a-c._ Cog Stones. _d-e._
Quartzite hand reamers or drills. (Specimens _a-e_ are from Tank Site,
LAn-1.) _f-m._ Topanga Culture Phase II projectile points from LAn-2.
Plate 24
Pestles and charmstone (?) fragment. _a-c._ Pestles from LAn-1. _d._
Flanged pestle from LAn-2. _e._ Belmnite fossil fragment or charmstone
from LAn-1.
[Illustration: Plate 17. Phase II Burials from Site LAn-2]
[Illustration: Plate 18. Burials, Features, and Artifacts from Site
LAn-1]
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